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Running Great Britain? There's an App For That!
judgecorp writes "Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron will get a personalised iPad app to help him run the country. The 'government dashboard' will include health waiting list figures, crime statistics, economic statistics and a real-time news feed. Cameron is a committed Apple user — but British members of Parliament have only been allowed iPads in the House of Commons since March 2011."
But... but... Apps! In the Cloud! On iPads! Using social media! Web 2.0, man!
How else are the Tories ever supposed to convince us that they either know or care one whit about the general populace?!
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Presumably you also criticized GWB, who literally took 3 times as many vacation days as Obama, right?
Don't worry, Dave needs Clegg. It's not as if he managed to push through a Bill which fixes parliaments at 5 years and requires a majority of 2/3 to call an early election. Combine this with New Labour's Abolition of Justice 2003 and Castration of Parliament 2006 acts and I begin to wonder why Westminster hasn't been turned into luxury flats. 99 in every 100 pieces of legislation are already written by government with only a few dozen Acts per year actually resulting from Bills passed through Parliament. The people of England and Wales are too busy worrying about manufactured crises while one of the most stable democracies in the world self-terminates.
Oh well, we're getting what we deserve. It's not as if we've suffered a suffrage-abolishing enabling act yet - the Fixed Term Act merely gave the Tories the maximum allowed by the 1911 Parliament Act without Lords veto privilege.
Dev accounts can load apps directly onto factory standard iOS devices - it'd be a bitch to chase down bugs otherwise!
Someone else has already mentioned dev accounts, but it's also possible to run an enterprise app store. Perhaps not worth it for just one iPad but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the way they go since it will be seen as the proper approach.
I have no idea why the summary says MPs are only allowed iPads in the House of Commons. Members are allowed to use smartphones or tablet computers, there are no brand restrictions placed upon them.
NHS waiting list statistics: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/index.htm
Crime statistics: http://www.police.uk/
Unemployment: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/labour-market/people-not-in-work/unemployment
Here is a bit from CBS
predecessors? CBS Radio's Mark Knoller has kept track of presidential vacations for years and supplied the data.
So far, President Obama has taken 61 vacation days after 31 months in office. At this point in their presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 180 days at his ranch where his staff often joined him for meetings. And Ronald Reagan had taken 112 vacation days at his ranch.
$3000 for the enterprise dev license to load apps directly on your organization's idevices without the app store. apple even has a tool for IT drones to do it automatically